This Week’s Quote: “Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.” —Learned Hand
This Week’s Quote: “The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.” —H.L. Mencken
This Week’s Quote: “Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation’s capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.” —P.J. O’Rourke
This Week’s Quote: “You can discover everything you need to know, about a people or their culture, simply from their attitude toward torture. Any group or nation with a policy that encourages—or even tolerates—torture is worse than any evil it claims to be fighting.” —L. Neil Smith
This Week’s Quote: “Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines.” —Frank Herbert
This Week’s Quote: “I learned from my great-grandfather to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.” —Marcus Aurelius
This Week’s Quote: “If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one.” —Fritz Machlup
The medical issues I’ve been having (actually political, not medical), immediately followed by a death in the family, means there’ll be no podcast this weekend. Apologies. It’ll resume next week.
This Week’s Quote: “To prevent the wildest anarchy in thought and act, the government must put limits upon the free play of opinion. In part, it can reach that end by mere propaganda, by the bald force of its authority—that is, by making certain doctrines officially infamous. But in part it must resort to force, i.e., to law.” —H.L. Mencken
